Ten (Bad, But Popular) Arguments for Abortion

Aug 23, 2017 by

by  David Hershenov, Public Discourse:

A philosophy professor reflects on the poor arguments that convince his students of the justice of abortion.

I have been teaching the abortion controversy to college students for about fifteen years. Most of my students defend abortion. I disagree with them, but what’s most worrisome is how weak the reasons are that they give for their position and how much of their reasoning, followed consistently, would also justify infanticide.

My students have made up their minds before they have studied the pro-choice side of the debate, let alone the pro-life side. One would have hoped that they would have reflected longer and read more widely before killing anybody.

Below are ten of the worst, yet most popular, “arguments” in defense of abortion that I have encountered. They are not, and are not intended to represent, the best that the scholarly literature has to offer. Rather they reveal the sorry and worrisome state of the layperson’s pro-choice position.

The Arguments

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